Did statutory insurance improve the welfare of Swedish workers? The statutory workplace accident insurance act of 1916
Maoism and mental illness: psychiatric institutionalization during the Chinese Cultural Revolution
The history of book bans—and their changing targets—in the U.S.
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A unique single-copy “unburnable” edition of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale at Sotheby’s. This fireproof edition of the often-banned book was created to raise awareness about the proliferation of censorship.
Stepfamilies across Europe and overseas, 1550–1900
Restrained freedom? Widows, blended families and inheritance in eighteenth-century urban Sri Lanka
Asylum Ways of Seeing: Psychiatric Patients, American Thought and Culture
Histories of Drug Trafficking in Twentieth-Century Mexico
Feminism and the Making of a Child Rights Revolution
Rewriting America: New Essays on the Federal Writers’ Project
Decolonizing Discipline: Children, Corporal Punishment, Christian Theologies, and Reconciliation
The social world of the school: Education and community in interwar London
Inventing the Thrifty Gene: The Science of Settler Colonialism
Carver School of Social Work was a victim of American fundamentalism, authors explain
Necrophilia, Psychiatry, and Sexology: The Making of Sexual Science in Mid-Twentieth Century Peru
Nude Bodies in British Women’s Magazines at the Turn of the 1970s: Agency, Spectatorship, and the Sexual Revolution
Over Sexed, Over Paid and Over Here … Again? Americans on R&R in Vietnam-Era Sydney
A Science of Hope? Tracing Emergent Entanglements between the Biology of Early Life Adversity, Trauma-informed Care, and Restorative Justice
Lessons From a Radical Past: One Man’s Journey into the Factories in the 1970s
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Race, class, caste, disability, sterilisation and hysterectomy
Health and Efficiency Fatigue, the Science of Work, and the Making of the Working-Class Body
Face the facts and help to control syphilis
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Psychologization in and through the women’s movement: A transnational history of the psychologization of consciousness‐raising in the German‐speaking countries and the United States
From Warkworth House to the 21st century care homes: progress marked by persistent challenges
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A neglected and forgotten episode of Nazi Race Psychology in Occupied Poland: A critical analysis by T. Tomaszewski (1945).
The Mods
Mods and their scooters, Manchester 1965
Breaking Point: The Ironic Evolution of Psychiatry in World War II
‘A Bargain with the Devil’: Human Rights and Homelessness in the Neoliberal Age
Shame may be fatal If you fear you have contracted a disease
British Social Welfare History in the Twentieth Century
Addiction Classic: The 1964 US Surgeon General’s report on smoking and health
When standard measurement meets messy genitalia: Lessons from 20th century phallometry and cervimetry
Encyclopedia of Social Welfare History in North America
Stop syphilis: Support local and state efforts to reduce syphilis
To Make the Wounded Whole: The African American Struggle against HIV/AIDS
“All emigrants are up to the physical, mental, and moral standards required”: A tale of two child rescue schemes
Alice Mauger, The Cost of Insanity in Nineteenth Century Ireland: Public Voluntary and Private Asylum Care
The Origins of the British Welfare State: Society, State and Social Welfare in England and Wales, 1800-1945
Fighting a Plague: Doctors’ Stories of Challenge and Innovation Combatting the AIDS Epidemic in 1980s New York City
A Miscarriage of Justice: Women’s Reproductive Lives and the Law in Early Twentieth-Century Brazil
Take Two Shots and Call Me in the Morning
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“The Women’s National Abortion Action Coalition & the Abortion Tribunals, 1971–1972”
Pain and Shock in America: Politics, Advocacy, and the Controversial Treatment of People with Disabilities
Europe’s Welfare Traditions Since 1500: Reform Without End
The idea of an ethically committed social science
Till Death Do Us Part: Laborers’ Marriage Practices in Late Victorian New Zealand
Chicano Communists and the Struggle for Social Justice
‘Revolution in the coalfields’: industrial relations in wartime south Wales, 1939-45
Of G-Men and Eggheads
Between Emotional Involvement and Professional Detachment: The Challenges of Nursing in Dutch Mental Institutions (1880–1980)
‘Remember Their Names’: Gay Men’s HIV and AIDS Death Notices, 1984–96
